Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Two good deals and healthier lunchtime stops to herald

Firehouse Subs:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehouse_Subs  and Subway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subway_%28restaurant%29 have both consistently come in under fifteen bucks for lunch for two, Hubby and me. Firehouse and Subway are pretty well known chains and franchises I do believe.Contrary to their names they do have salads, veggies, my choices and that come in at less than 400 calories.

Firehouse Subs actually posts its caloric count on its handy to take with menus, as Subway's reputation has proven over the years too to be quite healthy with its varied choice menus.
With those two reasonable and healthy choices Hubby and I feel we can enjoy picking up and taking home lunch a few times a week.

Now don't get me wrong we still enjoy not so inexpensive but great dining place like our non-chains of the Thai Cafe and China City, although our Mexican food choice of the Plaza Mexican are small chains. And who doesn't love ribs, but our best is not a chain either, Wally's, ( and no it is NOT Wally World) its owner and top chef is a grad of the Cordon Bleu culinary school. We are still searching for that delish seafood restaurant, not a chain, locally. You would think in Florida it would be an easy find.

When we lived on the other coast or when we used to go in our boat here too there were actually easy to come by.We enjoyed the type you could boat up to and dock and have a choice of pounds of shrimp, crabs or oysters or clams what-have-you at a price that would not be off putting price-wise.
The best places we would dock at had peel and eat shrimp with fries and coleslaw; our perfect lunch concept then.

Many were lost from the years of hurricanes here back in 2004-05, but some might still be around, although our access is to them isn't as much fun as it once was, by boat. 
You see, we do still have our boat, on our lift, but my ability to get onto and off of it has been compromised due to my lack of physical abilities, here's hoping that the Ampyra works!

I am so looking forward to that!

Moving on...

Today I went to my ophthalmologist, I was due, the one who had done my last year's cataract and laser and other minor eye surgeries all on my right eye. The day after surgery I went from legally blind to 20/30 eyesight!
But lately my vision has been going in and out in that eye, so I really shouldn't have hesitated about going there. And today it has proven to have had diminished slightly to 20/75 in that eye and I appear to have an infection in both of my eyes that required a prescription of a medication, topical drops of a combo of antibiotic/steroid to be used four times a day for the next week then to go off of it for a week and let them know how I am doing.

I had asked about Optic Neuritis and I was told that is what will tell if that is what is going on. Darn that damn disease haunts me too often, ON that is. First time it was approached this way before, guess eye docs treat it differently than my neuros have, who seem to always go the IV 1000 mg. of Solu Medrol for three days route, four times! Better this way, I think.
CRAZY! 
    
On that note of again me telling TMI, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly to count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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